{"id":857,"date":"2024-10-31T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/?p=857"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:01:33","slug":"week-4-initial-character-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/week-4-initial-character-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Initial Character Concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our third and fourth week our guest lectures were by Jake Detonator, an independent illustrator\/graphic designer and teacher of illustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was an extremely good insight into the building blocks of a unqiue character. For example, we looked at the designs in The Incredibles to see how shape language informs the viewer&#8217;s impression of a character, and how visual references to these archetypes can make a character feel unique but not totally alienating to a viewer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jake&#8217;s ethos when it came to making stories was creating something relatable for the viewer, and as such he encouraged us to take inspiration from our surroundings and any &#8220;coincidences&#8221; between the real-world and our story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the first session where we were encouraged to create at least one drawing of a potential character for my game, I created this character, essentially a god-type character that controls the laws of physics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/image-46.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/image-46.png 660w, https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/image-46-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jake was a big fan of this design, and while bouncing ideas off each other he came up with the idea of having multiple gods that could control physics, in a way similar to <em>Hades<\/em>, as I mentioned wanting to be able to control different physical parameters of the world. I thought this was a great idea and I immediately started thinking of ones for different physical forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our third and fourth week our guest lectures were by Jake Detonator, an independent illustrator\/graphic designer and teacher of illustration. This was an extremely good insight into the building blocks of a unqiue character. For example, we looked at the designs in The Incredibles to see how shape language informs the viewer&#8217;s impression of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,28],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classwork","category-development","category-semester-1","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}